WeChat Reportedly Surpassed 600 million Users

It is reported that WeChat registered users have surpassed 600 million.

In January this year, the mobile messaging app announced 300 million milestone. Its parent company hasn’t updated the public with registration accounts since then but only disclosed the number of monthly active users in the second quarter of 2013 that is 235.8 million. It was reported that WeChat reached 400 million users at the end of April.

On the earnings conference call for Q2 2013, Tencent disclosed WeChat overseas users reached 100 million in the quarter.

Six mobile games, developed in house, have been added to WeChat since the past July. And those casual/social games are highly profitable. Tencent reported that Tian Tian Ku Pao, a Temple Run-style game, had pocketed over 100 million yuan (about $16 million) in the first month since debut. It is estimated that a large chunk is from WeChat platform.

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